Valuing Ecosystem Services - The Case of Multi-functional Wetlands

Zusatztext 'This is the definitive volume on understanding and valuing wetland ecosystem services. With rapidly growing interest in ecosystem services and applications in a broad range of contexts! this volume is absolutely essential.'Robert Costanza! Professor of ecological economics! University of Vermont! USA'Brings the subject together in a text that combines theory! principles and practical applications - in a way that will be of interest to researchers and practitioners.'Joe Morris! Professor of resource economics and management! Cranfield University! UK'A valuable reference'S.G. Shetron! emeritus professor! Michigan Technological University! USA Informationen zum Autor R. Kerry Turner, CBE, is director of the Centre for Social and Economic Research on the Global Environment (CSERGE) and director of the Zuckerman Institute for Connective Environmental Research (ZICER), both at the University of East Anglia, UK. Stavros Georgiou is an economic advisor, UK Health and Safety Executive and an honorary research fellow at CSERGE. Brendan Fisher is a Research Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University, USA. Klappentext Ecosystem services can be broadly defined as the aspects of ecosystems that provide benefits to people. This book provides guidance on the valuation of ecosystem services, using the case of multifunctional wetlands to illustrate and make recommendations regarding the methods and techniques that can be applied to appraise management options. Zusammenfassung Ecosystem services can be broadly defined as the aspects of ecosystems that provide benefits to people. This book provides guidance on the valuation of ecosystem services, using the case of multifunctional wetlands to illustrate and make recommendations regarding the methods and techniques that can be applied to appraise management options. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction 2.The Ecosystem Services Approach to Natural Resource Management 3. Policy Appraisal Perspectives and Socio-economic Appraisal Approaches 4. The Ecosystem Services Approach: Valuation of Multi-functional Wetlands 5. Economic Valuation of Wetland Ecosystem Services in Practice 6. Valuation of Multi-functional Wetland: Case Studies 7. Conclusions and Future Prospects Appendices Bibliography Index ...

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• Authors: Brendan Fisher, Brendan (Princeton University Fisher, Fisher Brendan, Stavros Georgiou, Stavros (University of East Anglia Georgiou, Georgiou Stavros, R. Kerry Turner, R. Kerry (University of East Anglia Turner, R. Kerry/ Georgiou Turner, Turner R. Kerry
• Publisher: Stylus Publishing
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.10.2008
• EAN: 9781844076154
• ISBN: 978-1-84407-615-4
• No. of pages: 229
• Dimensions: 165 mm x 241 mm x 25 mm
• Series: Routledge Studies in Ecosystem Services; Routledge Studies in Ecosystem Services
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > General, dictionaries; Social sciences, law, business > Business > Individual industrial sectors, branches; SCIENCE / Earth Sciences / Geography, SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Ecology, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Environmental Economics, NATURE / Ecosystems & Habitats / Lakes, Ponds & Swamps, Environmental Economics, Ecological science, the Biosphere, Wetlands, Swamps, Fens